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From the vault This day in tech history, October 28

  1. 1998

    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act becomes law

    Title V of the copyright law is the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, which protects the designs of boat hulls.

  2. 2008

    Video Game History: Fallout 3 comes out in North America

    Bethesda opened its wasteland with midnight sales at about 2,000 stores. Within days it had shipped about 4.7 million copies worth over $300 million at retail, 55 percent of them on Xbox 360.

  3. 2018

    IBM agrees to buy Red Hat

    IBM offered $190 a share in cash, about $34 billion, and announced it on a Sunday.

  4. 2022

    Killed on this Day: Facebook Gaming app

    Meta shut down the standalone Facebook Gaming app just over two years after it launched in April 2020. Apple had rejected it several times before letting it into the App Store, so it was a short run for a long wait.

Then and now

1956: A hard drive: 3.75 MB. Today: 44 TB. IBM's 350 RAMAC held 3.75 MB on fifty 24-inch disks in a 5-by-6-foot unit that weighed over a ton; Seagate's Mozaic 4+ drives ship at up to 44 TB, and 44,000,000 MB divided by 3.75 MB is about 11.7 million times as much.

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